Does NATO Need to Rethink its Nuclear Strategy?

Leaders of the western alliance have begun talking more about nuclear deterrence, but a prominent American military strategist said the U.S. and its allies need to take a new look at their doctrines as well as the strategies being developed by other countries.

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments will release a new paper Tuesday that calls for the U.S. to develop new nuclear deterrence strategies. Andrew Krepinevich, the president of the think tank and a prominent military strategist, said that the world has entered a second nuclear age, one far more complex than the Cold War stand off between Russia and the United States.